Legasov: "Why worry about something that isn't going to happen?" Oh, that's perfect.
It's a doomed gesture, but Legasov's final speech at Dyatlov's trial openly indicts the Soviet system for making the disaster inevitable with their insistence on secrecy and propaganda.Ĭharkov: Why worry about something that isn't going to happen?. meaning that despite his dismissive bureaucrat act, he's been paying attention to Legasov this entire time. He's just trying to catch the two in a lie based on what little he knows. Not only that, but Shcherbina's never actually seen the actual graphite, only the reports and Legasov's explanations. Also counts as it shows that Shcherbina is willing to listen and understand that the Chernobyl situation is dire. Fomin and Bryukhanov are left stunned, and after the true radiation levels note over 4000 times the number Fomin and Bryukhanov gave Moscow come to light, Shcherbina orders them arrested. 
Upon confronting Fomin and Bryukhanov over the graphite (which, keep in mind, was only supposed to be in the reactor core itself, meaning that yes, the core did in fact explode), Shcherbina rips Fomin's allegation that the graphite was merely "burnt concrete", pointing out that while he may not know anything about nuclear reactors, he knows concrete, and concrete looks nothing like that no matter how much you burn it. but they did it knowing if they hadn't, millions would have perished. A lot of them died or remained sick for the rest of their lives. The sacrifices made by the Chernobyl Liquidators both in the miniseries and in Real Life. 
And contrary to everyone's expectations, they survived!
That three-man liquidator crew - Boris Baranov, Alexei Ananenko, and Valery Bezpalov - went on that terrifying Suicide Mission to drain the water tanks beneath Reactor #4 in order to prevent the disaster from becoming far, far worse. Just by volunteering, in that moment those three were the bravest men on the planet. 
It's enough to convince three men to stand up and volunteer, even though each man looks at each other knowing what the risks will be.Shcherbina, already shaken by the revelation he may already be dying in five years just by being there, stands up to give a Rousing Speech about how three volunteers can save millions, and that their culture as citizens of the Soviet Union always required sacrifice from every generation to serve their country. When it becomes clear a team needs to go in to drain the water underneath the meltdown to avoid a steam explosion, nobody wants to volunteer.Legasov: If you fly directly over that core, I promise you, by tomorrow morning you'll be begging for that bullet.
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